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Summary

A small and incomplete sub-circular enclosure on the gently sloping W flank of Little Gnats Head. A stone and turf bank, on average 2.2m wide and 0.6m high, encloses an area measuring 10.6m N to S by 10.2m. The bank is broken in several places, none of which can be positively identified as an original entrance. There are no features visible in the sloping interior. The origin and function of the feature are unclear.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1014478: An enclosure and stone hut circle 270m ENE of Plym Steps

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW168
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1355676
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/201/1
• Old SAM Ref: 24079

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Early Bronze Age to Post Medieval - 2200 BC (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140351 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(25/05/1995) Hut circle of the simple plan and rubble bank walling type. Interior measures 6 metres in diameter and is surrounded by a 1.6 metres wide wall standing up to 0.4 metres high. Despite being situated on a moderately steep slope this building does not appear to have been terraced, although this phenomenon may be a result of later peat accumulation. The associated enclosure wall appears to be later than the stone hut circle.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 132, Map 50 (Monograph). SDV137656.

An isolated hut circle 250 metres to the north of the settlement on the east side of Langcombe Brook may have been associated with it.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(22/08/2001) ntred SX 60536731. A small and incomplete sub-circular enclosure on the gently sloping W flank of Little Gnats Head. A stone and turf bank, on average 2.2m wide and 0.6m high, encloses an area measuring 10.6m N to S by 10.2m. The bank is broken in several places, none of which can be positively identified as an original entrance. There are no features visible in the sloping interior.
The origin and function of the feature are unclear.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Environment Agency WMS, 2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362956.

Visible on Lidar data.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1014478 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The stone hut circle within an enclosure to the east-north-east of Plym Steps is composed of a 1.6 metres wide and 0.4 metres high stone and earth bank surrounding a 6 metres diameter internal area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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